5 Factors Startups Should Consider While Choosing a Cloud Provider
Cloud Computing has a significant role to play in making startups successful. From San Francisco to London to Israel to Bengaluru, many early-stage startups utilised the cloud in rapidly scaling their businesses.
During the last five years, many new players entered the market, making it tough for startups to choose the right platform. While choice is always good, it can also get confusing for the developers in taking the first step towards the cloud.
Here are five factors that developers and startups need to consider when choosing their first cloud provider.
- Simplicity
One of the first factors to consider when evaluating a cloud platform is its simplicity. Most of the cloud providers expose functionality through a confusing user experience, which may be overwhelming for beginners. The consoles of popular cloud providers make you feel you are in a Boeing 747 cockpit. There are way too many knobs, dials, switches, and levers to deal with.
The other important aspect of the cloud platform is the pricing model. Startups operate within a limited budget, and they prefer to have a predictable cost structure. Many cloud providers make it complex and confusing to calculate the monthly outflow. With separate pricing for compute, storage, bandwidth, monitoring, and support, it turns out be impossible to accurately predict the cost of running your application in the cloud.
DigitalOcean is one of the cloud platforms that is designed with simplicity in mind. It targets developers through an intuitive user interface, usable API, and a powerful command line interface. The platform appeals to novices as well as experienced system administrators. Startups can easily deploy their applications without relying on third-party consultants.
Google Cloud Platform is another example of simple user experience. Following Google’s core design principles, the cloud console has just enough controls to make the interface simple to use.
Startups must prefer a cloud provider that doesn’t overwhelm the developers. They should be able to get started easily and scale the infrastructure without the learning curve involved in mastering the user interface and complex terminology.
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8yHonestly insightful and extremely helpful for freshers!! Nowadays making a decision is so complicated that we need to look out for consultants for making simple choices!